The National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) announced that today marks the 60th anniversary of the National Revolution on April 9th, 1952. Celebrations will be held in the La Paz cathedral and in the Casa Rosada according to the MNR national director Jhonny Torrez. Torrez said, “On this 60th anniversary, under the principles of the alliance of classes and historic leadership of the founders of the Republic Víctor Paz Estenssoro and Hernán Siles Suazo, the MNR made grand the grand changes of the National Revolution.” Among these reforms were the nationalization of mines, agrarian reform, universal sufferage, education reform, and the foundation of the COB union. The MNR went from a revolutionary democratic movement to a dictatorship mired in corruption and hyperinflation in the 1980s and has not been in power since the 1990s. Bolivia’s bloody revolution preceded that of Cuba and marked the first time in the 20th century when peasants and workers in Latin America successfully overthrew a dictatorship.
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